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deathhand··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
Boohoo the billion dollar giant can't do the same thing that regional sports have been doing for the last 20! years with the likes of NFL and Baseball.

Words matter. Words in advertising should matter. The slope is ice when we allow corporations to wordsmith around what they sell you.

deathhand··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
So why does Salesforce still prosper? They are just a fancy database.
deathhand··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
"No one gets fired for buying Microsoft" "No one gets fired for buying AWS" "No one gets fired for buying Cloudflare"

Perhaps the most graceful death of a tech company is that sentiment? Before some perception shift?

deathhand··on You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth
How many words does it take to say QoS(quality of service)?

Too many apparently.

This problem has been solved but much like our bigger and faster computers efficency takes a back seat for MORE. Just throw MORE at it and the problem is solved. It's a failure of tech, capitalism, and the environment.

deathhand··on M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS
Dev environments, and testing.

Macs are the best at virtualizing macs.(look up hackintosh to see how many hoops must be jumped through on non mac hardware)

deathhand··on Why We Hate Working for Big Companies (2018)
I echo your statement and to take it a step further:

In corporate politics there is only one thing that 'wins' and that is profitability. That profitability comes from the workforce so the top leaders are usually very motivated, democratic people because the best ideas win and you need people on your side.

Thinking about the public sector, there is no KPI for a 'win'. When we try to start using statistics it becomes 'political', skewered, or hand waved away as a complex marcoeconomic force.

deathhand··on The Seneca Effect: Growth is slow but collapse is rapid (2017) [pdf]
It's also just like any 4x strategy game. You can harvest resources and build and build but once those resources are depleted they deplete very fast because you have grown capacity for intake.

I'm glad we aren't worried about peak oil anymore but the climate and food scarity is going to be the next pitfall to avoid.

deathhand··on Scammers can exploit email forwarding flaws to impersonate high-profile domains
Each Office 365 tenant does not have a personal Exhange server. The sending smtp server is being shared and can be verified with the email headers. That is how this flaw works.

I feel like an idiot because I see the same behavior with the variable 'not in my organization' with transport rules and how many false positives I've had. I can clearly see the usage of different exchange servers being used in my environment when my company acquires a bunch of users. It falsely flags them because they are using a different shared exchange resource.

deathhand··on Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?
I found a provider (NYU Lagone) that uses Epic since early 2010s.

I've heard problems with people who use the tool but as a patient to be able go see a decade plus of my hospital visits, checkups, scans, and x rays is pretty amazing.

deathhand··on Scientists find ‘plastic rocks’ on remote island
I was going to write a witty intellectual comment about capitalism at work but with further reflection it needs to come from "both sides".

The economically disadvantage use plastic in their everyday life and an arbitrary tax on it would negatively effect them and make their lives harder.

At the same time they can see through the income gap that those who could afford an increase of plastic still shit all over the environment and would further lead to a divide in the issue.

The most recent example of this is people complaining about plastic straws whilst private jet use in unabated.

deathhand··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
Etys sellers who hold more than the FDIC insured limit? Yes the limit should be raised by a degree but we can't bail out everything all the time.
deathhand··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
Are your computers and networks secure?

If you operate in 1% space of wealth there are and should be risks. Making everything the lowest common denominator literally leaves us with Camacho for president.

deathhand··on Europe's big tech bill is coming to fruition
Nothing allowed that could influence elections. Oh gee, I'm sure that wouldn't be abused at all.
deathhand··on Poste.io – Complete Mail Server
I believe what the parent meant was that SPAM blocking relies heavily on keywords, and strings. With the advent of chat gpt we go beyond a/b testing and push it to into the every infinite way of someone conning you to click on something through email.
deathhand··on Higher-order organization of multivariate time series
I mean zero as in the nothing sense. We had trade and society before we had way to mathematically describe nothing. The history is diverse and interesting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0

deathhand··on Higher-order organization of multivariate time series
It took us a long time to figure out 0. This idea of multivariate time series is "tacit knowledge" and once we get good at modeling it we will never look back. As a laymen this is the most accessible I've seen these concepts.

And speaking for neurology methodology for time series tests subtraction sucks! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12369885_How_to_Avo...

deathhand··on Linux 5.19
Dell, one of the largest manufacturers of laptops supports Linux and OSS. It's not some red headed step child anymore.
deathhand··on When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware
Besides the enterprise grade tools I've been using Glasswire. It's like LittleSnitch for the Mac.

They aren't a huge security company so I don't know how easy it is to escape detection however their verbose reporting of application version changes, protocol usage, destination lists, and integration with Virus total gives me some sort of confidence.

deathhand··on Microplastics found in live human lung tissue
Unless your Copernicus!
deathhand··on 300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day
And thank goodness we got away from the shock sites that were the original "made you look".
deathhand··on Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'
I wonder if the timing could be related to recent market performance.
deathhand··on U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
Are you personally upset about the clear intelligence failures and extrfiltration of protected information?

I've grown up watching this unfold and I'm shocked that the power groups seem to be so ineffectual at times that it's laughable(but that may be by design...)

deathhand··on ISO should make all standards Publicly Available
Off topic but I think this happens when the stratification of society becomes very stagnant. The calcification creates pipelines of protectionalist thoughts that manifest in ego driven total surveillance or lobbying that protects industries furthering the calcification.
deathhand··on Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
Your submissions are nothing but "ask HN". Leech. To chide about "not knowing" but then yourself ask the community seems a bit hypocritical.
deathhand··on The Future Is Getting Farther Away
Fair point but as it relates to technology.. we can't progress if things hold us back. Wealth inequality being the greatest thing doing so.
deathhand··on The Future Is Getting Farther Away
"The future is here but not evenly distributed"

Society has scalability problem. It might be the inability for the human mind to care about every little detail of life that makes it function or with increased scale comes with greater perverse actors and the system needs needs counterweight to it.

America has been divided packaged and sold with little care about the ramifications down the road. We started off well, we broke up monopolies,(standard oil) protected people woth(glass-steagall) but then we lost our way and trillions can now be lost by the pentagon with little then a blink. Local construction costs skyrocket compared to other parts of the world, and we've created a horrible system of guaranteed profit in both colleges and homes allowing the prices to be inflated.

deathhand··on Right to Repair and Mcdonalds Ice Cream Machines
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407525
deathhand··on Apple enabling client-side CSAM scanning on iPhone tomorrow
Not GP but...

>99% of the population will delegate the decision of what code is allowed to run to someone, be it the manufacturer, the government, some guy on the Internet or whatever. For that 99% of the population, by the way, it's actually more beneficial to have restrictions on what software can be installed to avoid malware

I do not agree with this. You are saying people are too stupid to make decisions and that is amoral in my opinion.

>"Impossible to leave" is not a matter of closed or open, but it's a matter of social networks in general. You could make Facebook free software and its problems wouldn't disappear.

Data portability is a thing. This was the original problem with FB and thats how we got 'takeout'.

>Yes, it's been years since I talked someone face to face or on the phone and I cannot send letters anymore.

>Is this Mr. Robot talking now?

Using the extreme in arguments is dishonest. We are talking on HN where it is a selective group of like minded people(bubble). How does your delivery driver communicate with their social circles? Or anyone that services you? You will find different technical solutions are used as you move up and down the social hierarchy.

>The main problem with privacy and computer control is a collective one that must be solved through laws.

Technology moves faster than what any law maker can create. We do not need more laws as technology advances but rather an enforcement of personal rights and protections enabling users to be aware of what is happening. It appears you are stating "people aren't smart enough to control their devices" and "We need laws to govern people" vs my argument that "people should be given the freedom to chose" and "existing laws should be enforced and policy makers should protect citizens with informed consent".

deathhand··on How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)
So then this logic brings us to space platforms, anti-space platforms, and observservations of space platforms.

Everyone is probably already arming space to the teeth. I guess it's better than mutually assured destruction?

deathhand··on Sixth grader expelled after Zoom provided possibly inaccurate IP address
There is a system and it will be used. It is important for everyone reading this that either takes part or directs their own little systems to ask the question, what is the ramifications of this being abused? This can relate to cyber security, social fabric, and school systems. We all don't have to play along and it's important for everyone to stand up for what is right.

(Says the misfit who befriended their SRO[school resource officer])

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